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Before you upload your next personal movie to YouTube, you should probably take a closer look at the fine print. In their new Terms & Conditions YouTube states that while you maintain original ownership rights to your work, by submitting your work to the site

you hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the User Submissions in connection with the YouTube Website and YouTube’s (and its successor’s) business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the YouTube Website (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels.

So what does that all mean? In a nutshell it means they could strip the audio portion of any track and sell it on a CD. Or, they could sell your video to an ad firm looking to get “edgy”; suddenly your indie reggae tune could be the soundtrack to a new ad for SUVs. Which may not be all that bad since most people posting their stuff to YouTube are simply looking for exposure to begin with…

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